Optimizing Your Computer’s Battery Life

If you have spent any significant amount of time trying to figure out how you can make the battery on your laptop last longer, you have probably come across a seemingly endless number of (often contradictory!) methods. The reason why you will come across so many different pieces of advice for how to extend your battery life is that, quite frankly, the battery on your computer will eventually die no matter what you do (even if you removed your battery and hid it for the next ten years, you could come back to find that it no longer works at all!), and because of this, people are always assuming that the advice they followed was wrong, and that the “other” advice must be right. But while you cannot do anything that will cause your battery to last forever, there are a few specific things you can do to help your battery last longer.

First off, you should neither overcharge nor undercharge your laptop battery; if you can help it, you should never charge your battery all the way up to 100 per cent, and you should never let it run all the way down to empty.

Excessive heat can also wreak havoc on your laptop battery, and as the temperatures inside your computer can often reach 110 degrees, this spells trouble for your battery; the best way for you to avoid heat damage to your battery is for you to remove the battery completely when you do not need it (that is to say, when you are simply running off of power).

Of course, some laptops these days are constructed in such a way that it is impossible for you to remove the battery; the good news is that these same laptops usually keep the battery in a “cooler” compartment than everything else, and they also use technology that keeps the battery from overcharging – so with such a laptop, you will never have to worry about what you are doing to increase the battery life, as the laptop will take care of all of that on its own!